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HEP Phenomenology·hep-ph

Tue·Aug 17, 2021

38 papers29 primary·9 cross-listed·reconstructed*

  1. 01*

    Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Confinement from an Interacting Ensemble of Instanton-dyons in Two-flavor Massless QCD

    Dallas DeMartini🇺🇸 · Edward Shuryak🇺🇸

    In this work we present the results from numerical simulations of an interacting ensemble of instanton-dyons in the gauge group with flavors of massless quarks. Dynamical quarks are included via the effective interactions induced by the fermionic determinant evaluated in the subspace of topological zero modes. The eigenvalue spectrum of the Dirac operator is studied at different volumes to extract the chiral condensate and eigenvalue gap, with both observables providing consistent values of the chiral transition temperature . We find that a sufficient density of dyons is responsible for generating the confining potential and breaking the chiral symmetry, both of which are compatible with second-order transitions.

    hep-phnucl-thPRD(2021)·12 citations
  2. 02*

    Cabibbo suppressed single pion production off the nucleon induced by antineutrinos

    M. Benitez Galan🇪🇸 · M. Rafi Alam🇮🇳 · I. Ruiz Simo🇪🇸

    In this work we study the and production off free nucleons driven by the strangeness-changing weak charged current. We calculate the total cross sections for all possible channels and estimate the flux-averaged total cross sections for experiments like MiniBooNE, SciBooNE, T2K, and Minerva. The model is based on the lowest order effective SU(3) chiral Lagrangians in the presence of an external weak charged current and contains Born and the lowest-lying decuplet resonant mechanisms that can contribute to these reaction channels. We also compare and discuss our results with others following similar and very different approaches.

    hep-phhep-exPRD(2021)·4 citations
  3. 03*

    D and B-meson production using kt-factorization calculations in a variable-flavor-number scheme

    B. Guiot🇨🇱 · A. van Hameren🇵🇱

    Within the framework of -factorization, we compute the differential cross section for the production of and mesons, using a general-mass variable-flavor-number scheme. Our calculations include all relevant processes. We explain how to include the process in our calculations, but argue this is not (numerically) relevant at moderate transverse momentum due to its cancellation with the subtraction term. We apply this formalism to collisions and compare our results with ALICE and LHCb data at central and forward rapidity.

    hep-phPRD(2021)·21 citations
  4. 04*

    Study the contributions of S, P, and D-wave resonances to the quasi-two-body decays in perturbative QCD approach

    Wen Liu🇨🇳 · Xian-Qiao Yu🇨🇳

    Based on the perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD) approach and the quasi-two-body approximation, we have studied the three-body decays B^{0}_{s}\rightarrow \psi(3686,3770)\emph{K}\pi, which include the contributions of the intermediate resonances \bar{\emph{K}}^{*}_{0}(1430)^{0}, \bar{\emph{K}}^{*}(892)^{0}, \bar{\emph{K}}^{*}(1410)^{0}, \bar{\emph{K}}^{*}(1680)^{0}, and \bar{\emph{K}}^{*}_{2}(1430)^{0}. The time-like form factors corresponding to the distribution amplitudes of the S, P, and D-wave of the kaon-pion pair have been adopted in the parameterized form, which describe the interactions between \emph{K} and \pi in the resonance region. First, the decays B^{0}_{s}\rightarrow \psi(2S,1D)\emph{K}^{-}\pi^{+} have been calculated followed by the calculation of the branching ratios of the decays B^{0}_{s}\rightarrow \psi(3686,3770)\emph{K}^{-}\pi^{+} using the 2S-1D mixing scheme. In addition, the pQCD predictions for the decays B^{0}_{s}\rightarrow \psi(2S,1D)\emph{K}\pi and B^{0}_{s}\rightarrow \psi(3686,3770)\emph{K}\pi have been obtained using the narrow-width approximation relation given by the Clebsch-Gorden coefficients. Our work shows that the \bar{\emph{K}}^{*}(892)^{0} resonance is the main contributor to the total decay, and the branching ratio and the longitudinal polarization fraction of the \psi(2S)\bar{\emph{K}}^{*}(892)^{0} decay mode agree well with the currently available data within errors. Furthermore, the theoretical predictions of the \psi(2S) and \psi(3686) decay modes are very close, indicating that they can be regarded as the same meson state. Finally, the pQCD predictions for branching ratios of decays B^{0}_{s}\rightarrow \psi(3686,3770)\emph{K}\pi are of the order of 10^{-5} and 10^{-6}, respectively, which can be verified using the ongoing LHCb and Belle II experiments.

    hep-phEPJC(2022)·4 citations
  5. 05*

    Understanding and visualizing the statistical analysis of SN1987A neutrino data

    Marcos V. dos Santos🇧🇷 · Pedro Cunha de Holanda🇧🇷

    The SN1987A detection through neutrinos was an event of great importance in neutrino physics, being the first detection of neutrinos created outside our solar system, and then inaugurating the era of experimental neutrino astronomy. The data have been largely studied in many different analysis, and has presented several challenges in different aspects, since both supernova explosion dynamics and neutrino flavour conversion in such extreme environment still have many unknowns. In addition, the low statistics also invoke the need of unbinned statistical methods to compare any model proposal with data. In this paper we focus on a discussion about the most used statistical analysis interpretation, presenting a pedagogical way to understand and visualize this comparison.

    hep-phEPJC(2022)·3 citations
  6. 06*

    Comment on "New Freezeout Mechanism for Strongly Interacting Dark Matter"

    Shu-Yu Ho🇰🇷 · Chih-Ting Lu🇰🇷

    Inspired by our recent paper "reshuffled SIMP dark matter", we notice that the reaction rate of the two-loop induced process may dominate over or be comparable with that of the process at the chemical freezeout of Co-SIMP dark matter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131301 (2020)], especially when the Co-SIMP mass is close to the standard model particle mass (called the edge case). To check our point, we then derive the Boltzmann equation with all relevant annihilation cross sections in an electrophilic model and numerically solve it to obtain the cosmological evolution of Co-SIMP dark matter. Our result shows that the two-loop induced process does modify the parameter space of the coupling for the edge case in the Co-SIMP mechanism and has to be taken into account in UV completion models.

    hep-phastro-ph.COhep-th1 citation
  7. 07*

    Distinguishing signatures of scalar leptoquarks at hadron and muon colliders

    Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay🇮🇳 · Anirban Karan🇮🇳 · Rusa Mandal🇩🇪 · Snehashis Parashar🇮🇳

    While the hunt for new states beyond the standard model (SM) goes on for various well motivated theories, the leptoquarks are among the most appealing scenarios at recent times due to a series of tensions observed in -meson decays. We consider singlet and triplet scalar leptoquarks separately, which contribute to charged and neutral current -meson decays. Focusing on the single production of these two scalar leptoquarks, we perform a PYTHIA-based simulation considering all the dominant SM backgrounds at the current and future setups of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The mono--jet + finalstate gives the strongest signal for the singlet leptoquark at the 30 TeV LHC or Future Circular Collider (FCC), with a possibility of signal significance with \fbi of integrated luminosity, for the chosen benchmark scenarios. The finalstate consisting of a -jet and two -jets provides highest reach for the singlet leptoquark, probing an value of the Yukawa-type couplings for up to TeV leptoquark mass. For the triplet leptoquark, topology is the most optimistic signature at the LHC, probing leptoquark couplings to fermions at value for the leptoquark mass range up to TeV. The invariant mass edge distribution is found to be instrumental in determination of the leptoquark mass scale at the LHC. We also perform the analysis at the proposed multi-TeV muon collider, where an leptoquark Yukawa coupling can be probed for a TeV leptoquark mass.

    hep-phEPJC(2022)·51 citations
  8. 08*

    Mass-Spectroscopy of [] and [] tetraquark states in a diquark-antidiquark formalism

    Rohit Tiwari🇮🇳 · D. P. Rathaud🇮🇳 · Ajay Kumar Rai🇮🇳

    In this article, we utilise the non-relativistic potential model to calculate the mass-spectra of all bottom [] and heavy-light bottom [] (q=u,d) tetraquark states in diquark-antidiquark approximation. The four-body problem is reduced into two-body problems by numerically solving the equation using a cornell-inspired potential along with relativistic correction term. The splitting structure of the tetraquark spectrum is described using spin-dependent terms (spin-spin, spin-orbit, and tensor). We have successfully calculated and predicted the masses of bottom mesons, diquarks and tetraquarks. The masses of S and P-wave tetraquark states [] and [], respectively, are found to be between 18.7-19.4 GeV and 10.4-11.3 GeV, in which the masses of S-wave [] states are less than the 2, , and 2 threshold. Additionally, we investigated the and states in the current model and found that they are 150 MeV below the and thresholds.

    hep-phEPJA(2021)·30 citations
  9. 09*

    Reduction of the electroweak correlation in the PDF updating by using the forward-backward asymmetry of Drell-Yan process

    Siqi Yang🇨🇳 · Yao Fu🇨🇳 · Minghui Liu🇨🇳 · Renyou Zhang🇨🇳 · Tie-Jiun Hou🇨🇳 · Chen Wang🇨🇳 · Hang Yin🇨🇳 · Liang Han🇨🇳 · C.--P. Yuan🇺🇸

    We propose a new observable for the measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in Drell-Yan lepton production. At hadron colliders, the distribution is sensitive to both the electroweak (EW) fundamental parameter , the weak mixing angle, and the parton distribution functions (PDFs). Hence, the determination of and the updating of PDFs by directly using the same spectrum are strongly correlated. This correlation would introduce large bias or uncertainty into both precise measurements of EW and PDF sectors. In this article, we show that the sensitivity of on is dominated by its average value around the pole region, while the shape (or gradient) of the spectrum is insensitive to and contains important information on the PDF modeling. Accordingly, a new observable related to the gradient of the spectrum is introduced, and demonstrated to be able to significantly reduce the potential bias on the determination of when updating the PDFs using the same data.

    hep-phhep-exEPJC(2022)·8 citations
  10. 10*

    NNLO constraints on proton PDFs from the SeaQuest and STAR experiments and other developments in the CTEQ-TEA global analysis

    Marco Guzzi🇺🇸 · T. J. Hobbs🇺🇸 · Tie-Jiun Hou🇨🇳 · Xiaoxian Jing🇺🇸 · Keping Xie🇺🇸 · Aurore Courtoy🇲🇽 · Sayipjamal Dulat🇨🇳 · Jun Gao🇨🇳 · Joey Huston🇺🇸 · Pavel M. Nadolsky🇺🇸 · Carl Schmidt🇺🇸 · Ibrahim Sitiwaldi🇨🇳 · Mengshi Yan🇨🇳 · C.-P. Yuan🇺🇸

    We review progress in the global QCD analysis by the CTEQ-TEA group since the publication of CT18 parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton. Specifically, we discuss comparisons of CT18 NNLO predictions with the LHC 13 TeV measurements as well as with the FNAL SeaQuest and BNL STAR data on lepton pair production. The specialized CT18X PDFs approximating saturation effects are compared with the CT18sx PDFs obtained using NLL/NLO small- resummation. Short summaries are presented for the special CT18 parton distributions with fitted charm and with lattice QCD inputs. A recent comparative analysis of the impact of deuteron nuclear effects on the parton distributions by the CTEQ-JLab and CTEQ-TEA groups is summarized.

    hep-phSciPost Phys.Proc.(2022)·21 citations
  11. 11*

    Scaling behaviors of heavy flavor meson suppression and flow in different nuclear collision systems at the LHC

    Shu-Qing Li🇨🇳 · Wen-Jing Xing🇨🇳 · Xiang-Yu Wu🇨🇳 · Shanshan Cao🇨🇳 · Guang-You Qin🇨🇳

    We explore the system size dependence of heavy-quark-QGP interaction by studying the heavy flavor meson suppression and elliptic flow in Pb-Pb, Xe-Xe, Ar-Ar and O-O collisions at the LHC. The space-time evolution of the QGP is simulated using a (3+1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamic model, while the heavy-quark-QGP interaction is described by an improved Langevin approach that includes both collisional and radiative energy loss inside a thermal medium. Within this framework, we provides a reasonable description of the meson suppression and flow coefficients in Pb-Pb collisions, as well as predictions for both and meson observables in other collision systems yet to be measured. We find a clear hierarchy for the heavy meson suppression with respect to the size of the colliding nuclei, while their elliptic flow coefficient relies on both the system size and the geometric anisotropy of the QGP. Sizable suppression and flow are predicted for both and mesons in O-O collisions, which serve as a crucial bridge of jet quenching between large and small collision systems. Scaling behaviors between different collision systems are shown for heavy meson suppression factor and the bulk-eccentricity-rescaled heavy meson elliptic flow as functions of the number of participant nucleons in heavy-ion collisions.

    hep-phnucl-exnucl-thEPJC(2021)·28 citations
  12. 12*

    Exploration of the hidden charm decays of

    Qi Wu🇨🇳 · Dian-Yong Chen🇨🇳

    In the present work, we investigate the decays of in the molecular frame. By using an effective Lagrangian approach, the branching ratios of and are estimated. It is found that the dominating decay mode of is open charm channel, while, the branching ratio of the hidden charm decay channels is about . In particular, the branching ratios of and are predicted to be of order of . Moreover, our estimation indicates that the fraction of the quasi-two-body cascade decay via and the total cross section of around 4.68 GeV is . All the predicted branching ratios in the present work could be tested by further measurements in BESIII and Belle II.

    hep-phPRD(2021)·29 citations
  13. 13*

    Inclusive approach to hunt for the beauty-charmed baryons

    Qin Qin🇨🇳 · Yu-Ji Shi🇩🇪 · Wei Wang🇨🇳 · Guo-He Yang🇨🇳 · Fu-Sheng Yu🇨🇳 · Ruilin Zhu🇨🇳

    With a distinctive internal structure from all established hadrons, the beauty-charmed baryons can provide us with new points of view to decipher the strong interaction. In this work, we point out that the inclusive decay is a golden channel for the experimental discovery of at the LHC. A unique feature of this process is that the is displaced, which greatly reduces the combinatorial background. A feasibility analysis is performed on the search, which is expected to have a longer lifetime than and thus a better displacement resolution. The branching ratio is calculated within the heavy diquark effective theory. Combining the production rate and the detection efficiency, we anticipate that hundreds of signal events will be collected during LHCb Run 3.

    hep-phhep-exPRD(2022)·42 citations
  14. 14*

    The quirk signal at FASER and FASER 2

    Jinmian Li🇨🇳 · Junle Pei🇨🇳 · Longjie Ran🇨🇳 · Wenxing Zhang🇨🇳

    We study FASER and FASER 2 sensitivities to the quirk signal by simulating the motions of quirks that are travelling through several infrastructures from the ATLAS interaction point to the FASER (2) detector. The ionization energy losses for a charged quirk travelling in different materials are treated carefully. We calculate the expected numbers of quirk events that can reach the FASER (2) detector for an integrated luminosity of 150 (3000) fb. Scenarios for quirks with four different quantum numbers, and different masses and confinement scales are studied.

    hep-phJHEP(2021)·17 citations
  15. 15*

    Connected and Disconnected Sea Partons from CT18 Parametrization of PDFs

    Tie-Jiun Hou🇨🇳 · Jian Liang🇨🇳 · Keh-Fei Liu🇺🇸 · Mengshi Yan🇨🇳 · C.--P. Yuan🇺🇸

    The separation of the connected and disconnected sea partons, which were uncovered in the Euclidean path-integral formulation of the hadronic tensor, is accommodated with the CT18 parametrization of the global analysis of the parton distribution functions (PDFs). This is achieved with the help of the distinct small behaviors of these two sea parton components and the constraint from the lattice calculation of the ratio of the strange momentum fraction to that of the or in the disconnected insertion. This allows lattice calculations of separate flavors in both the connected and disconnected insertions to be directly compared with the global analysis results term by term.

    hep-phSciPost Phys.Proc.(2022)·2 citations
  16. 16*

    Longitudinal Z-boson polarization and the Higgs boson production cross-section

    Simone Amoroso (for the xFitter Collaboration)🇩🇪

    We present a study of the LHC (and HL-LHC) potential towards a precise determination of the gluon parton distribution function of the proton at intermediate Bjorken- from measurements of Drell-Yan production. To this extent, we exploit a clean and theoretically well predicted observable: the Drell-Yan lepton angular coefficient , associated with the longitudinal polarization of the Z boson. Through a detailed numerical analysis using the open-source xFitter platform, we illustrate how this observable can provide significant sensitivity over current determinations of the gluon PDF, and a reduction in the PDF uncertainty on the Higgs boson production cross-section by a factor of over 50\%.

    hep-phSciPost Phys.Proc.(2022)·0 citations
  17. 17*

    Rare decays of the positronium ion and molecule, and

    M. Jamil Aslam🇵🇰 · Wen Chen🇨🇦 · Andrzej Czarnecki🇨🇦 · Samiur Rahman Mir🇨🇦 · Muhammad Mubasher🇨🇦

    Decay rates of the positronium molecule into two photons and into an electron-positron pair are determined. Previous studies find that these rates are very different, \[ \Gamma\left(\text{Ps}_{2}\to e^{+}e^{-}\right)/\Gamma\left(\text{Ps}_{2}\to\gamma\gamma\right)\simeq250\text{ (previous studies)}. \] This is puzzling since both processes have two body final states and are of the same order in the fine structure constant. We propose a simple calculational method and test it with the well-established decay of the positronium ion into an electron and a photon. We then employ it to correct predictions for both these decays. We find that previous studies overestimated the and underestimated the channel by factors of about 5.44 and 3.93 respectively. Our results give .

    hep-phphysics.atom-phPRA(2021)·4 citations
  18. 18*

    Coherent photoproduction of in nucleus-nucleus collisions in the color dipole approach- an update

    Agnieszka Łuszczak🇵🇱 · Wolfgang Schäfer🇵🇱

    We discuss the role of -Fock states in the diffractive photoproduction of -mesons. We build on our earlier description of the process in the color-dipole approach, where we took into account the rescattering of pairs using a Glauber-Gribov form of the dipole-nucleus amplitude. We compare the results of our calculations to recent data on the photoproduction of by the ALICE and LHCb collaborations.

    hep-phSciPost Phys.Proc.(2022)·5 citations
  19. 19*

    Electromagnetic response of hot QCD medium in the presence of background time-varying fields

    Gowthama K K🇮🇳 · Manu Kurian🇮🇳 · Vinod Chandra🇮🇳

    The response of the hot QCD medium in the presence of external time dependent electromagnetic fields has been studied within the relativistic Boltzmann transport theory. The impact of the time dependence of the electromagnetic fields and collisional aspects of the medium to the induced electric and Hall current densities has been explored. The non-equilibrium momentum distribution of degrees of freedom has been obtained in the presence of space-time varying electromagnetic fields. Further, the analysis has been extended to an anisotropic QCD medium while incorporating the in-medium interaction effects. It is observed that the electric charge transport is sensitive to the inhomogeneity of the fields and the momentum anisotropy of the QCD medium.

    hep-phnucl-thPRD(2021)·19 citations
  20. 20*

    Neutrino Interactions in the Late Universe

    Daniel Green🇺🇸 · David E. Kaplan🇺🇸 · Surjeet Rajendran🇺🇸

    The cosmic neutrino background is both a dramatic prediction of the hot Big Bang and a compelling target for current and future observations. The impact of relativistic neutrinos in the early universe has been observed at high significance in a number of cosmological probes. In addition, the non-zero mass of neutrinos alters the growth of structure at late times, and this signature is a target for a number of upcoming surveys. These measurements are sensitive to the physics of the neutrino and could be used to probe physics beyond the standard model in the neutrino sector. We explore an intriguing possibility where light right-handed neutrinos are coupled to all, or a fraction of, the dark matter through a mediator. In a wide range of parameter space, this interaction only becomes important at late times and is uniquely probed by late-time cosmological observables. Due to this coupling, the dark matter and neutrinos behave as a single fluid with a non-trivial sound speed, leading to a suppression of power on small scales. In current and near-term cosmological surveys, this signature is equivalent to an increase in the sum of the neutrino masses. Given current limits, we show that at most 0.5% of the dark matter could be coupled to neutrinos in this way.

    hep-phastro-ph.COhep-thJHEP(2021)·25 citations
  21. 21*

    Effects from Hadronic Structure of Photon on and Decays

    Yun Li🇨🇳 · Zhi-Tian Zou🇨🇳 · Yue-Long Shen🇨🇳 · Ying Li🇨🇳

    Using the perturbative QCD approach, we studied the effects from hadronic structure of photon on the pure annihilation rediative decays and . These decays have small branching fractions due to the power suppression by the , which make them very sensitive to the next-leading power corrections. The quark components and the related two-particle distribution amplitudes of a final state photon are introduced. The branching fractions can be enhanced remarkably by the factorizable and nonfactorizable emission diagrams. The branching fraction of even increases by about 40 times, and those of and are at the order of . We also note that the ratio of branching fractions of and is very sensitive to the effects from hadronic structure of photon. All above results could be tested in future.

    hep-phhep-exCPC(2023)·0 citations
  22. 22*

    Dark matter in three-Higgs-doublet models with symmetry

    W. Khater🇵🇸 · A. Kunčinas🇵🇹 · O. M. Ogreid🇳🇴 · P. Osland🇳🇴 · M. N. Rebelo🇵🇹

    Models with two or more scalar doublets with discrete or global symmetries can have vacua with vanishing vacuum expectation values in the bases where symmetries are imposed. If a suitable symmetry stabilises such vacua, these models may lead to interesting dark matter candidates, provided that the symmetry prevents couplings among the dark matter candidates and the fermions. We analyse three-Higgs-doublet models with an underlying symmetry. These models have many distinct vacua with one or two vanishing vacuum expectation values which can be stabilised by a remnant of the symmetry which survived spontaneous symmetry breaking. We discuss all possible vacua in the context of -symmetric three-Higgs-doublet models, allowing also for softly broken , and explore one of the vacuum configurations in detail. In the case we explore, only one of the three Higgs doublets is inert. The other two are active, and therefore the active sector, in many aspects, behaves like a two-Higgs-doublet model. The way the fermions couple to the scalar sector is constrained by the symmetry and is such that the flavour structure of the model is solely governed by the matrix which, in our framework, is not constrained by the symmetry. This is a key requirement for models with minimal flavour violation. In our model there is no CP violation in the scalar sector. We study this model in detail giving the masses and couplings and identifying the range of parameters that are compatible with theoretical and experimental constraints, both from accelerator physics and from astrophysics.

    hep-phJHEP(2022)·26 citations
  23. 23*

    The Realistic Scattering of Puffy Dark Matter

    Wenyu Wang🇨🇳 · Wu-Long Xu🇨🇳 · Bin Zhu🇰🇷

    If dark matter has a finite size, the intrinsic interaction responsible for the structure formation is inevitable from the perspective of dark matter self-scattering. To describe the circumstance in which the binding force realizes the finite size dark protons, we first use the Eikonal approximation to simplify the convoluted scattering between dark protons into the case at the limit. The Chou-Yang model is then introduced to reduce the number of input parameters to one based on the simplicity and analyticity principle. A new definition of velocity dependence and the corresponding implications on the small cosmological structures from Chou-Yang dark protons are shown clearly. Even though the parameter space is not fully covered, the numerical findings show that the amplitude coefficient can alter the self-scattering cross-section, allowing us to recover the excluded parameter space without using binding force. Finally, we demonstrate that the correct relic density from thermal freeze-out production prefers super heavy dark protons.

    hep-phastro-ph.HEPRD(2022)·9 citations
  24. 24*

    Holographic charm and bottom pentaquarks II: Open and hidden decay widths

    Yizhuang Liu🇵🇱 · Maciej A. Nowak🇵🇱 · Ismail Zahed🇺🇸

    We analyze the decay modes of the three and non-strange pentaquarks with hidden charm and bottom, predicted by holographic QCD in the heavy quark limit. In leading order, the pentaquarks %are composed of heavy-light mesons in bulk bound to an instanton core. They are degenerate and stable by heavy quark symmetry. At next to leading order, the spin interactions lift the degeneracy and cause the pentaquarks to decay. We show that the open charm (bottom) decay modes dwarf the hidden charm (bottom) ones, with total widths that are consistent with those recently reported by LHCb for charm pentaquarks. Predictions for bottom pentaquarks are given.

    hep-phhep-thnucl-exnucl-thPRD(2021)·16 citations
  25. 25*

    Towards NNLO+PS Matching with Sector Showers

    John M Campbell🇺🇸 · Stefan Höche🇺🇸 · Hai Tao Li🇺🇸 · Christian T Preuss🇦🇺 · Peter Skands🇦🇺

    We outline a new technique for the fully-differential matching of final-state parton showers to NNLO calculations, focussing here on the simplest case of leptonic collisions with two final-state jets. The strategy is facilitated by working in the antenna formalism, making use of NNLO antenna subtraction on the fixed-order side and the sector-antenna framework on the shower side. As long as the combined real-virtual and double-real corrections do not overcompensate the real-emission term in the three-jet region, negative weights can be eliminated from the matching scheme. We describe the implementation of all necessary components in the VINCIA antenna shower in PYTHIA 8.3.

    hep-phhep-exPLB(2023)·51 citations
  26. 26*

    Doubly heavy tetraquarks in an extended chromomagnetic model

    Xin-Zhen Weng🇨🇳 · Wei-Zhen Deng🇨🇳 · Shi-Lin Zhu🇨🇳

    Using an extended chromomagnetic model, we perform a systematic study of the masses of the doubly heavy tetraquarks. We find that the ground states of the doubly heavy tetraquarks are dominated by color-triplet configuration, which is opposite to that of the fully heavy tetraquarks. The combined results suggest that the color-triplet configuration becomes more important when the mass difference between the quarks and antiquarks increases. We find three stable states which lie below the thresholds of two pseudoscalar mesons. They are the tetraquark, the tetraquark and the tetraquark.

    hep-phCPC(2022)·72 citations
  27. 27*

    Resummation of the Sivers asymmetry in heavy flavor dijet production at the Electron-Ion Collider

    Zhong-Bo Kang🇺🇸 · Jared Reiten🇺🇸 · Ding Yu Shao🇨🇳 · John Terry🇺🇸

    We review our transverse momentum dependent factorization and resummation formalism for heavy flavor dijet production at the EIC. In this formalism, we have calculated the heavy flavor mass corrections in the collinear-soft and jet functions, and in the resummed expression for the cross section. By establishing this formalism, we then study the effects of the mass corrections by providing predictions at the EIC for the massive case and for the case where the mass is neglected. We find that the heavy flavor mass effects can give sizable corrections to the predicted asymmetry.

    hep-phhep-exnucl-exnucl-thSciPost Phys.Proc.(2022)·0 citations
  28. 28*

    Superfluid Effective Field Theory for Dark Matter Direct Detection

    Konstantin T. Matchev🇺🇸 · Jordan Smolinsky🇺🇸 · Wei Xue🇺🇸 · Yining You🇺🇸

    We develop an effective field theory (EFT) framework for superfluid He to model the interactions among quasiparticles, helium atoms and probe particles. Our effective field theory approach brings together symmetry arguments and power-counting and matches to classical fluid dynamics. We then present the decay and scattering rates for the relevant processes involving quasiparticles and helium atoms. The presented EFT framework and results can be used to understand the dynamics of thermalization in the superfluid, and can be further applied to sub-GeV dark matter direct detection with superfluid He.

    hep-phcond-mat.supr-conhep-thJHEP(2022)·13 citations
  29. 29*

    NLO electroweak potentials for minimal dark matter and beyond

    Kai Urban🇩🇪

    We calculate the one-loop correction to the static potential induced by , and -exchange at tree-level for arbitrary heavy standard model multiplets. We find that the result obeys a "Casimir-like" scaling, making the NLO correction to the potential a "low-energy" property of the electroweak gauge bosons. Furthermore, we discuss the phenomenology of the NLO potentials, the analytically known asymptotic limits and provide fitting functions in position space for easy use of the results.

    hep-phJHEP(2021)·21 citations
  30. 30*

    Neutrino transport with Monte Carlo method: II. Quantum Kinetic Equations

    Chinami Kato🇯🇵 · Hiroki Nagakura🇺🇸 · Taiki Morinaga🇯🇵

    Neutrinos have an unique quantum feature as flavor conversions. Recent studies suggested that collective neutrino oscillations play important roles in high-energy astrophysical phenomena. Quantum kinetic equation (QKE) is capable of describing the neutrino flavor conversion, transport and matter collision self-consistently. However, we have experienced many technical difficulties in their numerical implementation. In this paper, we present a new QKE solver based on Monte Carlo (MC) approach. This is an upgraded version of our classical MC neutrino transport solver; in essence, a flavor degree of freedom including mixing state is added into each MC particle. This extension requires updating numerical treatments of collision terms, in particular for scattering processes. We deal with the technical problem by generating a new MC particle at each scattering event. To reduce statistical noise inherent in MC methods, we develop the effective mean free path method. This suppresses a sudden change of flavor state due to collisions without increasing the number of MC particles. We present a suite of code tests to validate these new modules with comparing to the results reported in previous studies. Our QKE-MC solver is developed with fundamentally different philosophy and design from other deterministic- and mesh methods, suggesting that it will be complementary to others, and potentially provide new insights into physical processes of neutrino dynamics.

    astro-ph.HEhep-phAstrophys.J.Supp.(2021)·30 citations
  31. 31*

    Spinning Guest Fields during Inflation: Leftover Signatures

    Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni🇳🇱 · Matteo Fasiello🇪🇸 · A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu🇬🇧

    We consider the possibility of extra spinning particles during inflation, focussing on the spin-2 case. Our analysis relies on the well-known fully non-linear formulation of interacting spin-2 theories. We explore the parameter space of the corresponding inflationary Lagrangian and identify regions therein exhibiting signatures within reach of upcoming CMB probes. We provide a thorough study of the early and late-time dynamics ensuring that stability conditions are met throughout the cosmic evolution. We characterise in particular the gravitational wave spectrum and three-point function finding a local-type non-Gaussianity whose amplitude may be within the sensitivity range of both the LiteBIRD and CMB-S4 experiments.

    astro-ph.COgr-qchep-phhep-thJCAP(2021)·8 citations
  32. 32*

    Extracting Einstein from the Loop-Level Double-Copy

    John Joseph M. Carrasco🇺🇸 · Ingrid A. Vazquez-Holm🇫🇷

    The naive double-copy of (multi) loop amplitudes involving massive matter coupled to gauge theories will generically produce amplitudes in a gravitational theory that contains additional contributions from propagating antisymmetric tensor and dilaton states even at tree-level. We present a graph-based approach that combines the method of maximal cuts with double-copy construction to offer a systematic framework to isolate the pure Einstein-Hilbert gravitational contributions through loop level. Indeed this allows for a bootstrap of pure-gravitational results from the double-copy of massive scalar-QCD. We apply this to construct the novel result of the D-dimensional one-loop five-point QFT integrand relevant in the classical limit to generating observables associated with the radiative effects of massive black-hole scattering via pure Einstein-Hilbert gravity.

    hep-thgr-qchep-phJHEP(2021)·31 citations
  33. 33*

    Connecting Theory to Heavy Ion Experiment

    Gaoqing Cao🇨🇳 · Iurii Karpenko🇨🇿

    Only a fraction of all and hyperons detected in heavy ion collisions are produced from the hot and dense matter directly at the hadronization. These hyperons are called the {\em primary} hyperons. The rest of the hyperons are products of the decays of heavier hyperon states, which in turn are produced at the hadronization. As such, the polarization of only primary hyperons can be described with the formulae introduced in Sect. 8. For the rest of the hyperons, the polarization transfer in the decays has to be computed, and convoluted with the polarization of the mother hyperon. In this chapter, a derivation of the polarization transfer coefficients, as well as the computation of the mean polarization of all hyperons detected in the experiment, is presented. The chapter is concluded with the calculation of the resonance contributions to the global and local polarizations.

    nucl-thhep-phLect.Notes Phys.(2021)·1 citation
  34. 34*

    Dynamics of in-medium quarkonia in SU(3) and SU(2) gauge theories

    Yukinao Akamatsu🇯🇵 · Masayuki Asakawa🇯🇵 · Shiori Kajimoto🇯🇵

    Decoherence dynamics of quarkonia is studied in the high-temperature deconfined phase of SU() gauge theories. In particular, we analyze the symmetry properties of SU() stochastic potential model and find a novel "event-by-event" symmetry for case, similar to the -parity of hadronic systems. This novel symmetry constrains the relation between diagonal and off-diagonal components of quarkonium density matrix, leaving the latter to be finite at late times. We also present one-dimensional numerical simulation of the model, which indicates the usefulness of the complex potential simulations for the quarkonium survival probabilities in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, provided that the effect of dissipation can be neglected.

    nucl-thcond-mat.quant-gashep-phnucl-ex+1PRD(2022)·15 citations
  35. 35*

    Model-independent features of gravitational waves from bubble collisions

    Ariel Megevand🇦🇷 · Agustin Membiela🇦🇷

    We study the gravitational radiation produced by the collisions of bubble walls or thin fluid shells in cosmological phase transitions. Using the so-called envelope approximation, we obtain analytically the asymptotic behavior of the gravitational wave spectrum at low and high frequencies for any phase transition model. The complete spectrum can thus be approximated by a simple interpolation between these asymptotes. We verify this approximation with specific examples. We use these results to discuss the dependence of the spectrum on the time and size scales of the source.

    astro-ph.COhep-phPRD(2021)·11 citations
  36. 36*

    The tree world

    Markos Maniatis🇨🇱

    Tree amplitudes of any gauge theory and gravity can be factorized into primitive three-particle amplitudes by the BCFW recursion relations. We show that the amplitudes at any perturbation order are given by tree amplitudes with additional pairs of particles in the forward limit. As an example we compute the four-gluon all-plus helicity amplitude at next-to-leading order.

    hep-thhep-ph1 citation
  37. 37*

    On the single-event-based identification of primordial black hole mergers at cosmological distances

    Ken K. Y. Ng🇺🇸 · Shiqi Chen🇺🇸 · Boris Goncharov🇮🇹 · Ulyana Dupletsa🇮🇹 · Ssohrab Borhanian🇺🇸 · Marica Branchesi🇮🇹 · Jan Harms🇮🇹 · Michele Maggiore🇨🇭 · B. S. Sathyaprakash🇺🇸 · Salvatore Vitale🇺🇸

    The existence of primordial black holes (PBHs), which may form from the collapse of matter overdensities shortly after the Big Bang, is still under debate. Among the potential signatures of PBHs are gravitational waves (GWs) emitted from binary black hole (BBH) mergers at redshifts , where the formation of astrophysical black holes is unlikely. Future ground-based GW detectors, Cosmic Explorer and Einstein Telescope, will be able to observe equal-mass BBH mergers with total mass of at such distances. In this work, we investigate whether the redshift measurement of a single BBH source can be precise enough to establish its primordial origin. We simulate BBHs of different masses, mass ratios and orbital orientations. We show that for BBHs with total masses between and merging at one can infer at up to 97\% credibility, with a network of one Einstein Telescope, one 40-km Cosmic Explorer in the US and one 20-km Cosmic Explorer in Australia. A smaller network made of one Einstein Telescope and one 40-km Cosmic Explorer in the US measures at larger than 90\% credibility for roughly half of the sources than the larger network. We then assess the dependence of this result on the Bayesian redshift priors used for the analysis, specifically on the relative abundance of the BBH mergers originated from the first stars, and the primordial BBH mergers.

    astro-ph.COgr-qchep-phApJL(2022)·60 citations
  38. 38*

    Where, when and why: occurrence of fast-pairwise collective neutrino oscillation in three-dimensional core-collapse supernova models

    Hiroki Nagakura🇺🇸 · Lucas Johns🇺🇸 · Adam Burrows🇺🇸 · George M. Fuller🇺🇸

    Fast-pairwise collective neutrino oscillation represents a key uncertainty in the theory of core-collapse supernova (CCSN). Despite the potentially significant impact on CCSN dynamics, it is usually neglected in numerical models of CCSN because of the formidable technical difficulties of self-consistently incorporating this physics. In this paper, we investigate the prospects for the occurrence of fast flavor conversion by diagnosing electron neutrino lepton number (ELN) crossing in more than a dozen state-of-the-art three-dimensional CCSN models. ELN crossings is a necessary condition for triggering flavor conversion. Although only zeroth and first angular moments are available from the simulations, our new method enables us to look into the angular distributions of neutrinos in momentum space and provide accurate insight into ELN crossings. Our analysis suggests that fast flavor conversion generally occurs in the post-shock region of CCSNe, and that explosive models provide more favorable conditions for the flavor conversion than failed CCSNe. We also find that there are both common and progenitor-dependent characteristics. Classifying ELN crossings into two types, we analyze the generation mechanism of each case by scrutinizing the neutrino radiation field and matter interactions. We find key ingredients of CCSN dynamics driving the ELN crossings: proto-neutron star (PNS) convection, asymmetric neutrino emission, neutrino absorptions and scatterings. This study suggests that we need to accommodate fast flavor conversions in realistic CCSN models.

    astro-ph.HEhep-phPRD(2021)·132 citations

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